War broke out, and no one knew who was fighting whom. Oksana lost her colleagues—those who created the smartest machine “Samum”—and her friend, whom she loved, died. The presidential elections threatened to fail and lead to civil war, but the “Loyalty” program fixed everything. It all began with the experiment “Zero.” Evgeny wanted to prove that in the digital world it’s easy to program a person’s consciousness, but he didn’t finish the project. Something went wrong: people stared at a dead TV screen and waited for instructions. Humanity stood on the brink of destruction, but people fought not the right enemy—the enemy hid in every home, in every phone, computer, and television. But it turns out this was only the echo of war—while battles were taking place in another world.